Gastronomy and Tourism: Some Tours and Destination Examples From Turkey
Chapter from the book:
Bayram,
A.
T.
(ed.)
2023.
Research on Social Sciences- IV.
Synopsis
Gastronomy is discussed in terms of multivariate concepts such as food, cuisine, taste, culture, food and beverage products and eating. The concept of gastronomy, which has attracted more attention in recent years and has been dealt with together with tourism, has a scope far beyond just travel and eating and drinking activities. Contrary to popular belief, gastronomic tourism should not only mean traveling to eat or participating in eating and drinking activities during travel, but should be considered as a much broader concept. Individuals can use gastronomic variables (such as experience, taste, curiosity, locality and feature search) as a motivation tool, or the gastronomic elements of a destination can be considered as an attractive force in their travels. Within the scope of gastronomic tourism, different tourism activities can be seen. In this study, the concepts of gastronomy, gastronomy and tourism were mentioned and gastronomic experience was evaluated in tourism. In addition, in this study, some of the tours for gastronomy tourism in Turkey and some of the important destinations in gastronomy tourism in Turkey were discussed. In the study, it was tried to develop suggestions for gastronomy tourism, destinations and other stakeholders by evaluating the secondary sources in the literature.